Talk:2018 NBA playoffs

Regarding the new format

The reason behind my new formatting for this year is to make it easier to read and edit. For this reason, tables for playoff seeds are no longer used this year, being replaced by numbered lists, as used in some of the playoff articles in the 2000's. Also, this year will be organized on a round by round basis, instead of by conference.

With the cooperation of WikiProject NBA, I hope to revise all of the previous playoff articles to match my new formatting, and if you disagree with me, address that matter on my talk page someday. –Piranha249 (talk) 03:55, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

I Don't like the new format. 68.102.39.189 (talk) 13:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Home court

Given that the conferences are seeded without regard to the divisions, is it necessary to italicize the team with home court? It will always be the higher-seeded team now. Under the old rules, it was sometimes possible for a division champion to get seeding preference ahead of a team with a better record, but that's no longer true. MrArticleOne (talk) 13:50, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

It is still possible for the lower seed team to have home court advantages. It's gonna be rare, but it's still possible. It almost happens this year with the Blazers-Spurs and the scenario is well explained in this article. Let me summarize the article here:

Suppose Blazers-Spurs-Thunder all tied at 48 wins for the 4th seed (while the Jazz are at 49 wins and win the division), the tiebreakers are:

• Blazers-Spurs 1–2, Blazers-Thunder 4–0 → 5–2
• Spurs-Blazers 2–1, Spurs-Thunder 2–2 → 4–3
• Thunder-Blazers 0–4, Thunder-Spurs 2–2 → 2–6

In this scenario, the Blazers are seeded 4th due to a better combined head-to-head record with the other two teams; the Spurs are seeded 5th; and the Thunder are seeded 6th. However, home court advantage are determined solely by head-to-head record between the two teams in question. Since Spurs won their season series with the Blazers, the 5th seeded Spurs will have home court advantage in the first round against the 4th seeded Blazers.

— MT (talk) 03:13, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Maybe I overlooked it, but for the purposes of this discussion the only evidence for this rule that I saw the post identify is this memo. But I think the post is dramatically over-reading the relevant paragraph of that memo. It is talking about the general tie breaking rules, not the somewhat unusual situation of a 3- or 4-way tie for a seeding position that is broken and then the pairings within that group need to have home court assigned. MrArticleOne (talk) 01:41, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

I suggest keeping the italics for the NBA Finals. –HTD 19:53, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Press Releases on 2018 NBA CONFERENCE FINALS ROUND

 I found on [[   https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/994955901386809344%7C@ESPNPR]] on Twitter the Press Releases for the 2018 Eastern Conference Finals
I found on TurnerSportsPR on Twitter the Press Releases for the 2018 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS.

             NBA ON TNT COVERAGE

2018 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Presented by Hulu https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Pressroom_Turner_%282018_WESTERN_CONFERENCE_FINALS_Presented_By_Hulu%29.pdf

            NBA ON ESPN Coverage

2018 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Presented by ExxonMobil — Preceding unsigned comment added by EmperorEast2013 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 17 May 2018 (UTC) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/ESPN_%26_ABC_Combine_to_Exclusively_Televise_the_2018_NBA_Eastern_Conference_Finals_Boston_Celtics_vs._Cleveland_Cavaliers_-_ESPN_MediaZone_U.S.pdf